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by snarf21 2y ago
Really? I was under the understanding that we have continued to get taller and bigger driven by out our access to nutrition and medicine over the last couple of centuries.
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by snarf21 2y ago
I got rid of all my books a while ago and it was freeing. No more Tsondoku for me :) Previously, I always gave away books to friends after reading. Knowing someone else will enjoy them mitigates any loss aversion emotions (for me at least).
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by snarf21 2y ago
Agreed. I think most people would be a lot happier if they got rid of half their stuff. Then, next year, get rid of half again. We all keep so much and acquire so much that brings stress not joy.
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by snarf21 2y ago
I have a suggestion for you. Try making a board game instead. No complex technology to learn, way different than already being burnt out from coding all day, you can iterate on the fly by writing on your prototype, some can be tested solo (
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by snarf21 2y ago
It has more to do with the food industrial complex in the US. A lot of the "sugar" in US foods is corn syrup, which has been subsidized ~$48B in the last 25 years. Most low fat foods are just replaced with double the sugar to make
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by snarf21 2y ago
I think it is a function of building up the concepts. You might teach someone how to play Hearts which is pretty rules light. But once they understand that, other trick taking games already have a head start. Another approach is to start wi
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by snarf21 2y ago
There is a different version where a person takes drug A to solve problem X. But that has a side effect so they take drug B to solve that problem. And so on and so on and so on. Eventually, they decide to stop taking all the medicines and a
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by snarf21 2y ago
Even worse, our food has been specifically engineered to be as addictive as possible without increasing manufacturing costs.
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by snarf21 2y ago
Exactly correct. It just can't scale to the level need without just being literal deer farms. A poor family with access to hunting may be able to feed themselves here and there but not systemically. Even hunters forget that when you ki
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by snarf21 2y ago
While you are right, I think the mindset is different. People know that the interactions are fake. The real lie they tell themselves is that "If they only got to know the real me......." This is what feeds the personal messages&#x
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by snarf21 2y ago
Things seem directly headed to the movie Her where your monthly subscription is mostly used to pay for hosting your personal interaction model in the cloud.
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by snarf21 2y ago
The most valuable thing I want AI to do with regards to coding is to have it write all the unit tests and get me to 100% code coverage. The data variance and combinatorics needed to construct all the meaningful tests is sometimes laborious
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by snarf21 2y ago
I would say (largely) even good designers don't write great rulebooks. It is a total different skill set. The best analogy is that Publishers are to Rulebooks what Software Releases are to QA. It is always left to the end and rushed ou
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by snarf21 2y ago
Playing Dominion online is a LOT more enjoyable in person. The constant shuffling wears pretty thin pretty quick! :)
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by snarf21 2y ago
You are on the mark. The thing most people hate is learning a new game. My friend's wife refuses to learn new games but is fine playing Terraforming Mars every night (which is not an intro level game). Take games like Ark Nova with an
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by snarf21 2y ago
I disagree. True "good execution" will not produce bad results over the medium and long term but that is what good execution is actually solving for. Good execution should recognize when/how pivots should be made to produce v
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by snarf21 2y ago
I see it more as more of a hedge. If you believe in the opportunity, placing extra bets makes sense. Uber and Lyft weren't the only ride share companies but sometimes luck wins out and sometimes execution does. Additionally, if one see
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by snarf21 2y ago
It is more important to claim you have the best and most expensive sound system in a car than to actually get those results while driving. Most people don't drive these cars over 80 and never race 0-60 but knowing it could and bragging
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by snarf21 2y ago
I see this is as simply buying scale more quickly than they could grow organically.
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by snarf21 2y ago
At first blush, this might seem like another silly roll-up. However, I believe in Marc Lore completely and it will be interesting to see what this becomes. This is bad news for DoorDash (imo).
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by snarf21 2y ago
I agree with you but a deck of 48 would be more useful with all the divisors you get from multiples of 24. The fact that it is also triple encoded is super helpful (color and suit)for its usefulness. There is a saying in Bridge that each ha
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by snarf21 2y ago
This is all because of Reagan. Removal of the fairness doctrine and lowering of the highest tax rate from 70% to 50% to 28%. Now, we live in an oligarchy full stop. All the "free press" is owned by billionaires who crave tax cuts
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by snarf21 2y ago
Yeah, you are missing the point. Yes, tech are treated better than garbage workers but the question is about the specific concept of "unlimited" PTO. The "unlimited" is a anti-benefit . Just like free dry-cleaning at th
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by snarf21 2y ago
All credit for this go to Geoff and his efforts to bring this to life. He is a well-known game designer with dozens of published games and founder of the podcast Ludology (no longer an active host after 100s of episodes) that posits that G
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by snarf21 2y ago
We should also not forget the $1B in drug advertising spend that must be recouped. People from other countries are frequently dumb-founded when they see US tv with prescription ads. Also look at all the companies buying up old drugs and imm
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by snarf21 2y ago
This is great advice. Ideas are at best a head start, Execution is everything . Solve a problem you know thoroughly. Solve a problem you have yourself. You can pivot later but even if it goes nowhere, you solved something you can use even
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by snarf21 2y ago
Serious question: Why not make toxic diet illegal or cost prohibitive? Lots of manufactured food is designed to be more addictive. Then add in constant advertising bombardment targeted at kids. Why is there up to double the sugar in US brea
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by snarf21 2y ago
I think you are close, but we need to stop these mega-mergers where the acquisition would give any company X% of the market. We also need to go after the anti-monopoly practices of the mega giants; like what Amazon did to Diapers.com. As we
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by snarf21 2y ago
I don't think it would be the company that focused on those Moonshots. The founder types with $Billions get bored and start new things that try these instead.
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by snarf21 2y ago
This is an amazing book and I've read it 10+ times despite it being ~1000 pages. I tried a lot of the "sequels" but they just didn't deliver the same way and felt too samey and not a great continuation.

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